PDFOne .NET ProPlus 2.1

PDFOne .NET ProPlus 2.1 provides an excellent and versatile PDF component suite for .NET developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Delphi Prism and other .NET platforms. It allows developers to easily create applications that can view, print, create, edit, enhance, secure, merge, split and display PDF documents and forms. Gnostice PDFOne .NET components come with hundreds of functions and properties that put immense power in the hands of the developer.

PDFOne .NET provides controls that you can place on your form and use the extensive set of methods, properties and events, to quickly and efficiently customize the PDF task being performed. PDFOne .NET provides a high performance multipage viewer component with capability to render most of the text and image formats, without requiring the installation of Adobes products. It also provides a printer component to print PDF documents through your applications. A new bookmarks component allows you to display PDF bookmarks and provide PDF navigational features within your applications.

PDFOne .NET also supports creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing PDF documents, reading and filling of PDF forms, compressing, securing, appending and merging of multiple PDF documents, stamping, building Table of Contents, setting bookmarks, and many more functions that can be performed on PDF documents. The created or manipulated PDF documents can then be automatically delivered directly to users web browsers or saved to disk.

Major Features:

1. General Features, I/O and Security Support   
   
   • Load from file and memory stream
   • Save to file and memory stream
   • Save to HTTP response
   • Email after saving to file
   • Fully support PDF version 1.3 through 1.6 (Acrobat 4 through 7) files
   • Support TrueType and OpenType fonts
   • Support full embedding of TrueType and OpenType fonts
   • Support subset embedding of TrueType and OpenType fonts
   • Support for text rendering in Unicode (for all character sets – Eastern Europe, Chinese, Japanese…)
   • Support for Unicode text in watermarks, document information, bookmarks and text annotations 
   • Password-protect document with 40-bit and 128-bit encryption
   • Read encrypted documents (password required)
   • Read XML metadata of document
   • Read and edit document information properties, such as Title, Author, Subject, Keywords…
   • Read and edit document's viewer preferences
   • Add and remove thumbnails
   • Rendering of all image formats supported by .NET framework
   • Support Flate Encode/Decode, ASCII85 Encode/Decode, ASCIIHex Encode/Decode, RunLength Encode/Decode, LZW Encode/Decode compression techniques
2. Document Creation (new documents)
   
   • Support advanced rendering functions – header/hooter, paragraph, table, text box, watermark/stamping and auto-pagination for text
   • Add annotations - text, link, free text, line, square, circle, highlight, underline, squiggly, strikeout, stamp, ink, caret and more
   • Insert page-level file attachments
   • Add actions to links and annotations
   • Add document-level and page-level actions
   • Specify transparency levels for text, images, and shapes
   • Render shapes, images and text using CMYK
   • Embed document-level file attachments
3. Document Modification (existing documents)
   
   • Insert watermarks and stamps with text and images
   • Add, edit, and delete annotations
   • Add actions to bookmarks [URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named]
   • Add actions to annotations [URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named]
   • Add, edit, and delete bookmarks
   • Change page layout
   • Change document viewer settings
   • Change document viewer window settings
   • Change owner and user passwords
   • Change document restrictions
   • Insert page-level and document-level attachments
   • Add page headers and footers
   • Draw shapes such as circles, ellipses, squares, rectangles, lines, polylines, polygons…   Write formatted text with various fonts
   • Place autotext in rendered text [page number, total page count, time, and date]
   • Add various transition effects to enable a PDF document to be used as a presentation slide
4. Document Re-organization
   
   • Merge several documents into one
   • Copy pages from one document and append or insert them in to another document
   • Split a document into several new documents
   • Include/exclude bookmarks, annotations, form-fields, page-level actions, document-level actions from page reorganization operations
5. Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms)
   
   • Read and Fill form field values
   • Create new PDF form fields
   • Flatten existing form fields to make them non-interactive
   • Delete form field
   • Clone form field
   • Import form field values from an FDF file
   • Export form field values to an FDF file
6. Document Viewing
   
   • Rendering of text, shape and image elements
   • Support for TrueType and Type 1 fonts
   • Character and word spacing
   • Rendering CCITT4 images
   • Navigation keys
   • Page buffering for smooth scrolling
7. Document Printing
   
   • Scaling to printable area
   • Print page sub ranges (All, even, odd and custom-selected pages)
   • Page-level printing events
8. Document Outline Viewing
   • Interactive tree-view display of PDF bookmarks
   • Integration with viewer component

Enhancements:

1. Overall
   
   • New PDF Bookmarks component introduced - with support for integration with viewer component
   • Delphi Prism support (Visual Studio 2008)
   • New overloaded LoadDocument() method in viewer, printer, and bookmarks components for loading a document (returned by new GetDocumentHandle() method) already loaded by one of the other components.
2. PDF Viewer component
   
   • New overloaded GoToPage() methods for navigation into specific page areas
   • New AfterPDFLoaded event for notification after a document is loaded successfully
3. PDF Document
   
   • New Orientation property for rotating form fields
   • DevelopDotNet ZLib library replaced by Ionic's Managed ZLib library Professional edition) 64-bit compatible.
   • New RemoveBookmarksRoot method for removing all bookmarks
4. PDF Printer Component (resolved)
   • Page scaling
   • Landscape printing
   • Page magnification
5. PDF Document (resolved)
   • Rendering text using TrueType fonts that already exist in the document
   • Resource use by PDFFont class

Requirements:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008/2005,
• BDS 2005/2006 (Delphi & C++Builder for .NET),
• RAD Studio 2007
• Delphi Prism